Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The American Geologist, 1902, Vol. 30: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences
It is recognized by all that eskers must represent the wan ing stage of the ice-sheet; and probably the extent of basal melting during this stage is generallyunderestimated; but still few will question that it is to the surface melting or abla tion of the ice that we must look for the main source of water for the glacial streams, whether superglacial or subglacial.
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